Probably a return to the glory days for director John Frankenheimer. This is essentially an action thriller with decent dialog from uncredited writer David Mamet and lots of double and triple crosses that would make Alistair MacLean proud.
The film was well cast with Robert DeNIro and Jean Reno leading a team of for hire mercenaries who are after a mysterious suitcase which the IRA wants to get their hands on. Frankenheimer had filmed Grand Prix the very long auto racing saga with a lot of skill during the racing scenes. Ronin contains two very good car chases which Frankenheimer staged, he clearly knew a thing or two about filming speeding cars crashing into each other.
John Frankenheimer was one of the 1960's top directors but personal problems had derailed his career. Ronin was a film that saw him more engaged than usual towards the end of his career after a string of fairly bad to mediocre films.
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